All businesses have a duty to ensure they store waste from their business appropriately and ensure the collectors and disposal/treatment points for their waste are appropriately licensed with the Environment Agency.
Businesses should already have a contract with a waste collector but y-waste believes it has negotiated a more cost effective deal by businesses working collectively together.
Unlike the collection of waste from householders, the costs associated with the collection and disposal/treatment of waste from businesses is not included in their rates; this is charged for separately. This has the benefit of ensuring businesses only pay for the waste they produce.
No. The Council's only obligation as far as dealing with business waste is to arrange for its collection should this be specifically requested by individual businesses. In doing so, the Council's costs would need to be recharged to the businesses concerned.
y-waste is starting off a pilot project which means that we hope to test out various ways of working to find the most effective solution. Operating a single collection point is just one aspect that will be examined.
Your business rates contribute towards a number of public services. Waste collection and disposal are charged for separately, for the reason given in question 4.
